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WEATHER. Showers this afternoon, partly cloudy and cooler tonight; tomorrow falr and cooler. Temp: erature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. to- Highest, 84, at 3:40 lowest, 71, at 6 a.m. Full report on page 9. H p.m. yester- today. Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds, Page 30 No. 28,997. post_office Wa: Bnterea as.second-class matter shington, D, C. GOV, WALTON GIRDS FOR SUPRENE TEST INDRIVEONKLAN _ Legislators, Seeking His Of- ficial Head, Set Special Session Date. * EXECUTIVE, PINCHED, APPEALING FOR FUNDS “I Have Crossed the Rubicon,” He Declares, Defiantly, “It Is.a Fight to Finish.” By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., September 21.—Legislators seeking the official head of Gov. J. C. Walton marched on today in their plans for impeach- ment, while the executive gathered strength for a final drive on the Ku Xlux Klan, which he blames for the storm that has broken about him. “The invisible empire shall not pass in this state,” was the defiance hurled by the governor. o Will Convene Wednesday. The lower house of the Oklahoma legislature will convene at noon Wednesday to consider charges that Walton has set at naught constitu- tional government and if the gov- ernor Interferes with the meeting “he #cts at his peril.” This was the pro- nouncement of legislators who will seek the executive’s impeachment Walton's final attitude toward the house session was expected to be de- Yeloped during the day, but his legis- lative enemies were confident that he would not carry out his threat to Jail the house members if they at- tempted to assemble. Since voicing his threat some of the governor's legal advisers have urged him to permit the session as they declare it would be illegal and without effect. How- ever, the final word remains to be spoken and the threat has not yet been withdrawn Appeals for Funds. Admitting the fight was weighing heavily upon him, the governor sent out an appeal for funds, asking those who belleve in a representative form of government to send contributions to Mrs, Aldrich Blake, Oklahoma City, wife of the executive counselor. Blake now s absent from the state on a mission for the governor. But Gov. Walton was deflant. “I have crossed the Rubicon. It is a fight to the finish,” he declared. He said that if it proved neces- sary, he would arm every man In the ho is opposed to the “invisible N. C. Jewett, grand dragon of the . Oklahoma realm of the klan, and his associates “have turned the fight over to the klan newspapers and the klan | members of the legislature,” Walton asserted. ” Lets Looxe Broadside. A broadside was turned on the klan the governor last night when he ased a portion of the testimony taken before a military court here showing that County Attorney J. K Wright, Sheriff Tom Cavnar and Dis. trict Judge G. W. Clark had been obligated in the klan and_detailing charges made by Dr. A. A. Maupin, & dentist and former member of the organization, as to the connection of the “invisible empire” with mob vio- lence It was Judge Clark who issued the call for a special grand jury to in- stigate charges that Gov. Walton illegally had used state employes to check names on an initiative petition to_which he was opposed. The grand jury was dismissed when the military authorities trained ma- chine guns on thee courtroom at the orders of the governor. Walton charges that a “klan judge” and a “klan grand jury” were attempting to iInterfere with his war on the “in. visible empire.” Had Paid No Dues, Judge Clark summoned the gzrand Jury when a petition for the conven- ing of the body was submitted to him According to the record of the mili- tary court, Judge Clark testified that although he had been initiated in the Klan & year and a half ago, he had paid no'dues and for nearly a year had not considered himself a mem- ber of the organization. Sheriff Cavnar admitted he is now a_member of the Kian, and the portion of "County ~Attorney ' Wright's = testi- mony made public revealed that he had stated that he paid the fee for membership. Dr. Maupin's testimony was of a sensational nature exposing the ale leged machinations of the Oklahoma s01ty Kilan In dealing punishment to persons falling under the resci - tion of the “Kiansmen Jury > C=CTIP Summoned to Sanhedrin, Dr. Maupin testified that Grand Dragon Jewett had stated to him that he was responsible for the whipping of a man named Merriman, whom Jewett had acctised of indiscretions, The dentist detailed a sitting of the “sandhedrin” or “imperial council” to which he was summoned after having made inquiries as to the truth of the charges brought against the woman_involved In the e. He went armed, he testifled, warning Grant Landon, cyclops of the Jocal Klan, and the other members of the “sanhedrin” present that he would start shooting at the first threaten- ing move on their part. There, he said, he formally notified the organization of his resignation. After reading the testimony, Grand Dragon Jewett said: “Our only course from these framed attempts at libel and character as- sassination is in the courts.” Asks for Financial Ald, In a preface to the statement re- vealing testimony, exposing the inner working of the Klan, Gov. Walton de- clared the burden of the fight against the Klan had fallen upon himself and upon Aldrich Blake, his counselor, making it necessary for him to ap- peal for financial aid. “Every effort is being made to crip- ple us financially so that we cannot continue the fight,” the governor said, A special sesslon of, the legislature is assured, it was announced by W. C, XcBee, representative in charge of the fight on Walton. Sixty-nine legislators nave signed the call for the convening of the house next Wednesday, McBee said, Fifty-four constitutes a majority, That Gov. Walton will not use troops to prevent assembly, despite his earlier threats, was the prediction of McBee and his associates. E. J. Giddings, one of the gover- nor's closest legal advisers, announ ed that he would advise the governor against interfering with the session. “Let_them go ahesd—it is not le- gal,” Giddings asserted. In a statement, Murray F. Gibbons, speaker of the house, and_a Walton “supporter, declared that the session {Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) Merriman | Lives Given in Test to Save 500,000,000 Gallons Gas a Year The four Bureau of Standards experts who lost their lives in a laboratory explosion yes- terday, and six others who were Injured had just completed ex- periments, which are éxpected to save 500,000,000 gallons of sasoline a year, In their study of evaporatio bureau officinls xaid today, the laboratory force had dlscov- ered methods’ for preventing high waste from this cause and had prepared full charts of &Teat economic value. The ex- periments had heen proceeding for several months, 1t ix safd, and had just reached the stage ©f a final report on the fAindings. Another task recently under- taken by the victims of the ex- ploxion which was the most serious in the history of the bureau, was the testing of the engines of the Navy Afrship ZR-1. In a speelally comstruct- ed chamber the motors of the eraft were put through a series of experiments from which data wax developed for maval e gineers showing the amount and grade of fuel meeded nat ry foot of altitude up to aix miles, with required earbureter ndjustments at the varying heights. The alr within the laboratory during the experi- ments was controlled in wuch &' way s to simulate low and high altitudes, while the motors were kept running. EFFORT IN ENGLAND T0THWART ACCORD - WITH FRANCE SEEN Paris Nonplussed by British Disappointment Over Re- sult of Premier’s Parley. By the Associated Press. PARIS, September 21.—Stanley Baldwin, the British prime minister, lett for London today after a cordial leave-taking with Premier Poincare, !who went to the rallway station to see him off. The two premiers had |a short but animated conversation in | Mr. Baldwin’s car. Then just as the train was moving oft M. Poincare reached up and grasped the hand which the British premier extended through the car window. The tone of the British press com- | ment on the interview of the premlers seems to have nonplussed the French, provoking the query whether there is not a strong party in England which |up of the entente. Political and of- ficlal circles here are immensely gratified at the result of the pre- miers’ meeting and are unable to un- derstand why it was so disappointing to the British if they really desire (o come to an understanding it | France. ACTION HELD NEARER. | Reichstag Called by Stresemann to Formulate Policy. | BY PERCY NOEL. | By Wireless to The Star and Ph | Public Ledger. Copyright, 1923.) BERLIN, September 21.—The deter- ! mination of Chancellor Stresemann | to settle the Ruhr question one way or another has resulted in the presi- dent of the reichstag lssuing a call {for an assembly next Wednesday. | At the outset, according to present ! administration plans, the chancelior will not address the reichstag, but will outline his program to the com- mittee on foreign affairs. It is under- stood that the committee will then { decide upon how much of the “capitu- lation plan” will be placed before the reichstag as a whole, so that the most | conciliatory portions can be kept se- | cret from the German people. | One of the most significant reac- |tions to the government's course— |one which indicates the extent of | Stresemann’s adherence to capitula- | tion—came yesterday ~ when Fritz | Thyssen, the first big industrialist |arrested in the Ruhr, resigned as a {member of the directing committee {of the Ruhr defense organization. After meeting with the leaders of the socialist labor union, it is said, Chancellor Stresemann called the cabinet together. “In_this cabinet meeting, it is re- ported,” says a big Berlin daily with what appears to be consistent verac- ity, “that it was declded as a_ step toward official announcement of the | government's determination regard- {ing resistance—silence was agreed {upon—that the orders of the previous {administration issued with reference {to the Ruhr territory would no long- |er be recognized. { “The population of the Ruhr now has a free hand. It no longer has to resist the orders of the French and {can take up work again. And this, ito_some measure, has ocourred It Js probable’ that other German | newspapers w | Statements soon, "° Printing similar . “The Termination of Passive Re- | sistance” and “Away With the Sub- mission Policy” are other headlines of dicate that the end of is near this time. Denounce Statemen The foreign office =stated officlally that all statements to the effect that the old orders for passive resistance had been rescinded were a parcel of lies; that it was ridiculous t such a step being taken wlt‘l?lol::-:;r!‘: cessions being granted by the French. Nevertheless, that bold statement ithat the Ruhr population mow has a free hand, is no longer bound to resist the French and other sensationgl new, falled to result in confiscation of the puper_under the defense of the republig act. The government could legitimate- Iy have done 80, but it was 6xplained officially that the statement was not of such a character as to warrant it. (hThe connesultonl ll’l1 the Ruhr which e government now is pre, of the French as a sop R or lation sentiment in Gi come less impo ject to further reduction. polnttl of moment now are: Safety for all condemned the return of all persons afl;::xd.nh.y the French to leave the Ruhr: loca administration restored to Germans. Iiberty of labor; free traffic betwesy occupled and unoceupled Germany, GERMAN RULE NEED. Ruhr resistance By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, September 21.—A semi- official statement referring fo reports current in*Paris of possible Franco- (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | 2409 Brown stree |18 aetecmino b praRentithe DpLoN E | avenué, siight lacerations to forehead; the Berlin press, but both strongly in- | he 04 n WITH BmA! MORNING EDITION far. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1923—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. . BLAST KILLING 4, INJURING 6, CALLED AGCIDENT BY JURY s‘econd Inquiry Into Bureau Explosion Begun by Com- mittee of Scientists. J. E. KENDIG FOURTH FATALITY EARLY TODAY Break in Exhaust Pipe or Spark From Short Circuit Held Cause of Tragedy. » With a casualty list of four dead and six injured in: the bureau of standards explosion yesterday, two investigating bodies today inquiries aimed at establishing the cause as definitely as possible. The first inquiry to be completed was the inquest this morning under Dr. Herbert Martyn, deputy coroner, at the District morgue, where a jury rendered a verdict of ‘“accidental death” in the case of Logan L. Lauer, and stated that the wreck of the laboratory was “caused by the explo- sion of a gasoline and air mixture in the testing chamber.” Sclentists Study Blast. The verdict continued: “The jury believes that this explosion and the resulting death to have been acel- dental.” The second investigating body was a committee of scientists at the bu- reau of standards appointed by Dr. George K. Burgess, director of the bureau, to start an inquiry this morning. They will report upon the cause and methods to prevent a sim- ilar repetition as soons as they have completed a survey. Four in Death List. Today's death list follow J. E_ Kendig, twenty-six years old assistant electrical . engineer, who died at 4 a.m. today, at Emergency Hospital. Stephen M.. Lee, thirty-five years old, mechanical engineer, who died at 10:42 o'¢lock last night, at Emergency Hospital. Urban J. Cook, thirty years old, who died at 6:30 o'clock last night, Emergency Hospital. Dr. Logan L. Lauer, assistant phy- sicist, twenty-three years old, killed instantly. Those Who Were Injured. The list of the injured follows Roger Birdsell, forty vears old, of Frank E. Richardson, twenty-seven | years old, of Falkstone Courts; condi tion, serious; suffering from burns about body, hands and feet. Capt, C. M. Smith, 4624 Wisconsin not serious; at home. R. F. Kohr, 1708 Newton street, re- jceived first aid treatment; not serious. H. K. Cummings, thirty vears old, | of 407 Raymor street, burns on upper portion of body and lacerations of the head; serious. G. W. Eiliott, twenty-nine years old, of 739 12th street, burned about upper portion of body; serious. Engineer Is Witness. The chiet witness at the inquest at the morgue today was C. W. Sparrow of 1810 Ontario place, a mechanical engineer, who was working in a build- ing adjoining the dynamometer labora- tory when the explosion there took place. He testified that the only possibility for the explosion was the filling of the chamber in which the test for an au- temobile motor was being carried on with a mixture of gasoline and air. A break in the exhaust pipe—which runs to an exit outside the chamber— or a short-circuiting spark could have set off the mixture, he said. R. F. Kohr. who was employed in (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SWEETSER LEADER INGOLF TOURNEY Amateur Champion Seven Up to Gardner—Marston and Ouimet Even Up. By the Associated Press. FLOSSMOOR, IIl, September 21.— Jess Sweetser, defending champion, finished the first eighteen holes of the morning round with Bob Gardner 7 up, going out in par 36 and coming home in 1 under par for a 37, while Gardner took 38 going out and re- quired 43 coming back. Play started under adverse condi- tions, with the.linke soft from inter- umittent rains and a cold wind blow- ing stifly from the northeast whip- ping in autumn to the discomfort of both golfers and the gallery, which was decimated by shivery blast and lower sky. Sweetser had the honor in his match with Gardner, and only a sprinkling of golf bugs watched the drives at the hole. Max Marston and Francis Ouimet were all square at the end of the eighteenth hole. Ding-Dong Battle. It was a ding-dong battle between Gardner and the champion for a time, not a hole belng halved until the| ninth, and from the eleventh tee to the seventeenth none was shared, but after Gardner had taken the first hole and lost the second he was never up, although he squared it at the sixth with his second consecutive birdie, only to go 2 down to two birdies in a row by Sweetser. - Turning into the second nine, Gard- ner’s irons began to fluke, and finally, at the fifteenth hole, he dubbed a drive and again flubbed a tee shot at the eighteenth. Jess made few mis- takes with any club, although one or two Irons were not brilliant, and he missed a couple of reasonable putts by inches, but Gardner, in addition to being_short or wide with his ap- proaches, missed severa] chances on the green, in: xdlnl a three-foot putt on the seventdenth. The match between Francis Ouimet of Boston and Max Marston of Phila- delphi much better, although the golf was not as good, both taking 40, or 4 over par, for the out nine, and were one worse coming in, w 41, 3 over par, and had the same tofal, 81, as Gardner had. Sw T's “score outstripped the other three semli-finalists by elght strokes. started | at| ; condition, critical. | BULGARIAN REVOLT MOVEMENT NIPPED Reds Sought to Establish Soviet System, Is Said. Sofia Battle Scene. By tho Associated Press. VIENNA, September 21.—While re- ports of a revolution in Bulgaria are exaggerated, says the Sofia corre- spondent of the Tagblatt, there really was a plot to overthrow the govern ment and proclaim a soviet republic { However, the government accident ally heard of the movement and nip | ped it. In two days, the dispatch asserts, 000 persons have been arrested and | | sent to join the Stamboulisky min- isters in the Sofia jail. Among this number were ten Russians. The subversive plot was to been sprung on Thursday. Mean- while the Macedonian irregular bands were to have started opcrations on the Jugosiay fromtier, but appar-| | entiy” there was no connection be-| ! tween them and the communists. i 1 Comparative calm now reigns in | Bulgaria. says the correspondent. | Martial law is being strictly applied {in Sofla, and no communication by telephone is allowed. FIGHTING IS REPORTED. have | Troops and Rebels in Sofla, Is Said, Battle. By the Associated Press ATHENS, September 21.—Advices from Sofia arriving here through dip- lomatic channels which are not speci- fied, report clashes between .troops| and revolutionists in Sofia. A num- ber of the latter were killed or wounded, and it is asserted that those arrested were cruelly beaten and that several died from injuries. The advices add that the Bulgarian | government is taking severe meas- Qires to quell the movement, but is meeting with strong resistance in northern Bulgaria, especially at | Prevna. % The Bulgarian government is said to be exaggerating the importance of the movement and trying to create an impression_that it is connected with | the Serbo-Bulgar differences. i SAYS REVOLT BROKEN. Bulgar Premier Asserts Trouble Is Near an End. | B comis o et int Do BELGRADE, September 21.—Con- flicting reports are being received on the success of the agrarian and com- munist uprising against the Bul- garlan government. Immediately aft- er a long cabinet session here it was | learned from a man close to Premier Paschich that the revolutionists had gained some local successes, but that Sofia was rapidly getting the upper hand and movements toward repres- sjon were virtually sure. I e revolution broke premature- Iy he said. “If preparations had been continued a few months more it probably would have succeeded. The Serbian government has re- ceived no definite answer to the ener- getic demand it made on Sofia ten | days ago for the Bulgarian govern- {ment to put an end to forays of Macedonian_comitadji into Serbian territory. The Serbs, who expected a big Comitadjl attack September 15, have many troops now near the Bul- garian_{rontier and xce wktohtally Bulgarian de; 2 N Anderstood that the British again have brought pressure to bear here to prevent an outbreak of war. The Serbians believe the present Bul- garian cabinet is fostering the Comi- fad)! attacks and is favoring the rev- olutionists. From other sources, it is learned, there has been bloody fight- ing in, numerous towns, but because of lack of munitions, it cannot con- tinue long. TOM TAGGART TO GO TO BOSTON HOSPITAL By the Associated Press. e P PR Mass., September 21.— ’rhh::fl“;’&nrt. former chairman of the democratio national committee, who was taken suddenly ill on Wed- nesday at his summer home in Hyannisport, was said by his physi- clan, Dr. E, E. Hawes, to be some. What better today. After consulta- tion with another physicidn yester- {day, Dr. Hawes decided that it would Dbe better for his patient to have hos- pital treatment, and today he was, preparing to accompany Mr. Taggart to_a private hospital in Boston. The illness started with a serles of hemorrhages. ~ Mrs. Taggart ar- ranged to go to the hospital with her husband. i Churchmen Told To Stop Flaying Jazz-Mad Youth By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September twentieth century youth burning ears” today there was righteous cause. Around the pres- ent generation was thrown thou- sands of wonls at the sessions of the international convention of the Brotherhood of St. Andre\‘ the majority by far in its defensel The “older boys” rather were the center of attack. Fathers with their sons were in joint conven- tion to hear several speakers tell them what they could do in the church, at home and in the school to stop what they termed “the popular imdoor sport of flaving the ‘Jazz-crazed’ youth of today.” “Frankly, my brethren,” said John H. Frizzell of Philadelphia, “I believe we are largely to blame. Twentleth Century youth, charged in many quarters as about the most thoughtless, careless, most un- grateful and generally unregen- erate lot the world has ever known, gives me no great worry. The present generation will ont- grow most of its ‘distemper,’ just as it did the croup, the measles and the mumps, if during the period of iliness it gets the right sort of treatment.” | EAGUE DODGES ITALIAN DEFIANCE Envoys Evince Desire to Pass Over Row Caused by Mussolini. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, September 21.—Switzer- land carried a voice of conciliation into the assembly of the league of nations, which reconvened today after almost a week’'s rest, when ex- President Motta congratulated both the council of the league and the couneil of ambassadors on the happy settlement of the Greco-Italian crisis. M. Motta declared the council had followed the spirit of the league covenant and he expressed the ardent hope that now the council had decided to permit the jurists to interpret the articles of the covenant the assembly would accept that wise decision and not press for debate on the issues involved by Ttaly's attitude toward the do¢ument on Which the league is founded. - M. Motta declared that in his judgment the league had ac- complished great things, but that it could not achieve all that was hoped for until the time arrived when the league had become universal. Fading as Issue. Further evidence that the Italian incident:had ceased to be a danger- ous issue for the assembly was forth- coming when J. J. Loudon of Holland and Dr. Nansen of Norway, who had been leaders of the movement to in- sist upon quick action on Italy's charge to the covenant, mounted the rostrum and_approved the council's decision to hold a judicial inquiry into_the meaning of -the covenant. Dr. Nansen said he fayored sending the covenant immediately to the Per- manent Court of International Jus- tice for an advisory interpretative opinton. He insisted that the council should Inform the assembly later as to_the exact procedure taken. Viscount Ishii, president of the counell, explained that the council had nct yet decided whether the general interpretation of the = covenant should be.left to selected jurists or turned over to Ths Hague tribunal. The conviction appears to be growing among -the delegates that the inquiry launched by the council will serve the best Interests of. the Jeague and strengthen the force of the covenant. - During his address commenting on-the general work of the council Dr. Nansen declared everything showed that the power of the league for good was increasing daily, but he - regretted it had been unable to help in the settlement of the repara- tion problem. He realized that d: ficulties” were in the - way, but clared with emphasis that the coun tries to the north, as, in fact, the smalier countries of Europe, were suffering terribly because the reparation questfon had not been solved. In the name of the smaller states, “whose only tribune is the league,” Dr. Nansen wished to implore the in- terested governments to h negotiations, as otherwise Europe would fall into chaos and. the whole of European civilization be impériled. This appeal by Dr. Nansen greeted with applause from the sembly. - i ! | | |Scheduled to begin after September h bno longer ‘Tree 10 oot directly with ! surplus developed, 0. MLK VAR DN SUPRLY ASSIRED Farmers and Dairymen FailI to Agree—Present Con- tracts Expire Sept. 30. { ¥ The milk war is on. P Efforts of Health Officer Fowler to | bring about an agreement between | the Maryland and Virginia Milk Pro- | ducers’ Association and leading dis- | tributors at a meeting last night| failed and the meeting broke up with both sides turning their at-| tention to plans for the combat| 30, when the present contracts for the milk supply of the District ex- pire. According to O. A. Jamison, man- ager of the association In this ecity, | the fight against the producers is| being carried on mainly by Chestnut Farms Dairy, Wise Brothers and Simpson’s Dairy. These three deal- | ers, according to the figures of the association, handle about 55 per cent of the normal supply of the District, whieh amounts to 38,000 gallons daily. No opposition to the demands of the farmers has been expressed to the association by the other deal Mr. Jamison declared. B Fight on Pooling. The fight centers around the pool- ing contract which the farmers have entered into with the association. Under the terms of the contract, the farmer turns over the right to sell 18 milk to the assoclation and is the distributors. The aim of the as- soclation, officials say, is to unite the farmers into a body so strong that hereafter, as need of price adjust- ment arises, the farmers can dictate a price sufficient to guarantee costs and a reasonable profit. The dealers, on the other hand, see a menace in the abandoning of the | principle of Individual bargaining and insist on their right to buy from Ivhom they will must be upheld. They | man ‘arme: H insist y TS are supporting | For the present, at least, no price Increase is contemplated, the di- rectors of the Milk Producers' Asso- | ciation having voted to maintain the present price in the face of advane- ing costs. Officials were frank to confess, however, that when the present issue Is settled they will turn their attention to an adequate return for their product. Mr. Jamison. declared that dealers who are expected to sign up now buy 17,000 gallons, or approximately 45 per cent of the supply. The assocla- tion stands ready to increase the sup- PIy to these dealers as required up to the full quantity normally delivered, Has Supply Assured. Ivan C. Weld of the Chestnut Farms Dairy exhibitéd three large rolls of contracts to support his contention that his company would have an ade- quate supply to meet all its needs on and after October 1. In addition, ter- ritory In Virginia valley formerl tapped for the local market and sub. sequently turned off has been re- opened. “The farmers in this section, formerly patrons of the Chestnut Farms Dairy, diverted their supply to Norfolk when the great after-war Raymond J. Wise of the Wi Brothers dairy said his company-had been recelving a surplus of approxi- mately 2,600 gallons, which the asso- clation has succeeded in cutting off, but that he was confident that a nor- mal supply would be received. An- other dairy, he said, had offersd_to turn over 6,000 gailons to him it negded. ; r. se pointed out a predica- ment in which many of his patrens were placed through the signing of the pooling contract. Under this agreement each farmer is subject to \(:omhmald on Page 4, Column 1.) TWO BOATS MISSING. Coast Guard Searching Lake Michi- -gan for Two Freighters. MILWAUKEE, September 21.—A lake coast guard cutter is searching Lake Michigan today in the hope of obtaining news of two freighting ves- sels reported missing. Hope of the f without President Coolidge and his legal ad- | |aaverse The Star’ “From Press to Home Within the Hour” || ’s carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yestezday’s Circulation, 90,146 Women Lining Up For Every Office In Gift of Towns NEW HAVEN, Conn,, September 21.—Women are going after every office in sight in the October town elections In this state, if an official statement by the League of Wom- en Voters today s a safe guide. The statement points out that 3756 women already hold elective town offices. “But,” 1t adds, “there have heen no appointments to office. Tree warden, for instance, with ‘knick- ers' everything is possible” Any Wway the league doubts “whether man tree wardens do much climb- ng.” Again the statement says: Woman assessors are not yet so popular (neither are men for that matter—nobody loves an assessor), but in West Haven a woman holds this couragebus office.” Three “discreet and learned ladfes” are town health officers under a statute “written long ago for men, who must be learned in medical and sanitary science,” the league records show. DAUGHERTY RULING FORGES REVISION OF ENTIRE SHIP POLICY New Plan of Operation Al- ready Evolved by Board Officials. A new plan of operation of the gov- ernment merchant fleet to take the place of that declared illegal by At- torney General Daugherty already has been evolved by the Shipping Board. It will be whipped into shape delay for presentation to visers. The alternative plan, said to have been prepared in anticipation of an opinion en the Lasker-Far- Tey proposal, is described as a com- promise between that proposition and the present operating-agent system. 1t is suggested the board may create, | or assist in the creation, type of corporate entit the permanent routes, and lease to these the ships pertaining to each route under conditions similar to those obtaining now in the case of the United States Line. Could Retain Control. In that manner, officials say, the government could retain full control and yet permti the measure of private initiative sought in the Lasker-Farley plan. In an opinion submitted to Presi- dent Coolidge yesterday, the Attor- ney General held that the Lasker- Farley plan for transferring the fleet to corporations organized under state laws would be unlawful under provisions of the shipping act limit- ing disposition of the fleet to cash or credit sales. The proposed trans- fer of title to ships in considera- tion of stock in the corporation, the opinion held, is authorized neither expressly nor by any implication to be drawn from provisions of the act. Would Part With Title. That the government would in a “real and substantial sense” part with title to its vessels “must be ad- mitted,” Mr. Daugherty said in con- sidering the argument that the go: ernment, as stockholder, would re- main the real owner of the ships con- veyed to the corporations. Corpora- tlons, he added, are legal entities, and_their stockholders are legal title to their property. Among other complications in the proposed plan cited by the Attorney General were loss of direction of the fleet by responsible federal officials, loss of the government's immunity from suits and the amenability of the corporations to state laws, in- volving_possible state taxation and (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) AN AND WIFE DIE of some IN GAS FILLED HOME Discovery Made When Neigh- bors of Mr. and Mrs. John Reidy Scent Fumes. John Reidy, former deputy United States marshal at the District Police Court, and his wife, Mrs, Reidy, both_about fifty vears of age, were found dead in their beds with the gas turned on at their home, 614 Upshur street northwest today. According to the neighbors Reidy and his wife had not been seen since Sunday, and various complaints had been made about escaping gas. The neighbors notified the gas company, and W. L. Logan, inspector for the Washington Gad Light Company, and Officer W. M. Dunavin of the tenth precinct this morning entered Reidy's home, _found the entire house filled with gas and, proceeding upstairs, founa the bodies of Mr. and Mr Reidy. Apparently the couple had been dead for some time. In another room, carefully laid out on the bed, was a Suit of clothes, a | black dress and a pair of stockings. According to officials at the police court, Beidy had left his position two years ago to go to a sanatorium and had returned and filed an appiication for reinstatement to his position. The application had thus far not been safe arrival of the fruit boat Forelle, cartying & crew of four, under com- mand of Capt. Cornelius Tamms, clear- ing St.’Joseph, Mich., for Milwaukee ‘Wednesday, has been virtually aban- doned. The boat was due in at 5 o'clock Thursday morning. The other boat missing is the American Girl, reported asten their|to have cleared St. Joseph for Mil- waukee early yesterday. Lake men e declare the hea storm of Thursday, in which the v sels are believed to have been lost, wi the worst experienced at this time of the year in a decade. " granted. The couple had.been at the Upshur street address since about March. Neighbors declared that lately Mr. Reidy had been in thé habit of walk- ing around with hl‘nup over a eyes in a,very morose $nanner. and Mrs. "Reldy formerly lived at 111 Rhode Island avenlie northwest. Dr. Martyn, deputy coroner, viewed the bédies, and pronounced death due to gas poisoning. He ordered the bodies taken to the morgue, where an investigation will be held. ’Detectives H. M, Jett and Charles Mullin, from headquarters, were sent to investigate the case, ™~ for each of | without | Martha | TWO CENTS. GRAVE FARM CRISS AS YET UNSOLVED OEEUPES CABINET |Coolidge and Advisers Con- sider Plans, But Specific Remedy Is Lacking. PRESIDENT STILL FIRM AGAINST CONGRESS CALL- Believes Definite Program for Agri- cultural Betterment Should First Be Worked Out. The agricultural situ: fore ‘the cabinet again tod: President Coolidge and his | earnestly seeking a remedy for dition which has been d the executive as one of gr. as ever existed the far states. Seve: on was be- ay, with dvisers con- cribed to gravity in western al possible means of prevent- ing a recurrence in z similar situation have been suggested but as yet specific remedies for | the existing condition have been de- | cided upon. Experts of the Depart- ment of Agriculture are making a survey of the situation as it affects wheat growers, particularly hard hit, | but their report has not yet heen com- pleted. There is no indication tary Wallace, to whom subject was referred at Tuesd abinet discussion, has any remedial measures | to suggest bevond those he already | has publicly advocated, and it is e | pected generally that when the Agri- culture Department’s final report g. to the White House it will consist | mainly of a recapitulation of world | erob statistics. Such a io( figures, department ve, will speak for itse!f and will demonstrate that preseu conditions are due largely to overproduction Seek Solution, Not Congress. Talk of an extra of Co gress to pass remedial legislation h been revived, but most congression | leaders now 'in Washington and a { ministration officers generally are | agreement with th ident that | would be unwise to summon Congre hington until a specific pro- f relief has been greed upon. s been emphas what the administration s, solution { along sound cconomic and pr | posals for the passage of hasty 1 islation consequently do not me \\\'Ilh approval | " Among rem proposed are |rates on grain centers to the nother y of a no that Secre- compilation officials be- session dies which a reduction from the have be of freigit producing principal market at IChicago, and a revival of the United | States Graln Ceorpo » handle i this season’s wheat A commit- {tee of bankers from the ninth federal reserve district will confer with the | President next week in support Lthe latter propositions, which would re- [quire legislation by Congress. | Hoover Against Rate Cut. | Some time ago Secretary Wallace | suigested that a reduction of rates {on agricultural products would help |to get the situation back on a nor- {mal basis, but other members of the inet, including Secre vy Hoover the Commerce Department, do not ;favor such a step unless it is accom- panied by a general freight rate re- adjustment on commercial as well as {agricultural shipments. It has been pointed out repeatedly, however, that the rate-making func- tions of the government are exercis- ed wholly by the Interstate Commerce Commission acting a: the agent of Congress, and that under the Constitu- | tion the executive b powerless to do more than s what it thinks | proper in that One of the possibilities is that the President, after consultation with his cabinet, may recommend that the commission undertake a new and thorough study of the agricultura ituation with |a view to such’relief action as it may find feasible Discuss | jot w York Polit Smpire_state was | dise ident Coolidge at | the White House today by republican |leadere from New York. In the group | were Senator Wadsworth, republican | national committeeman; Charles D Hilles,. Assistant Secretary of the { Navy Roosevelt, and George K. Mor- ris, republican 'state chairman. The President was told that, in general, the republican affairs in New York were “looking up.” The repub- lican leaders are bending their ener- | gles at present to maintain the pres- | ent republican majority of six in the | general assembly and to increase { their lead if possible at the coming {elections. The democrats have a ma- | jority of one in the state senate, but | there is no election of senators until | next year. Will Support Coolidge, | The governorship was not touched | upon, it was said, as the nomination {and ‘election for that office do not |come up until 1924. Col. Roosevelt | has been talked of as a possible re- | publican_nominee for governor. The New Yorkers did not, as a | whole, anneunce that the state had |lined up for President Coolidge for | his remomination. They indicated, | however, that he would have the | earnest support of New York repub- licans In his administration. It is expected. too, that the New Yorkers will get behind Mr. Coolidge for the nomination when the time comes. Other visitors at the White House today Includeg Gen. Lord, director of |the budget, and John W. Riddle, United States ambassador to Argen- tina. TURKEY GIVEN ISLANDS. { Last of Territory Held by Greeks Is Returned. | CONSTANTINOPLE, September 21. —The islands of Imbros and Tenedos, at the entrance to the Dardanelles, were handed over yesterday by Greege to the Turk authoriti These islands comprise the last por- tion of Turkish territory occupied by Greece which had to be returned to Turkey in conformity with the Lausanne peace treat: AUTO WRECK KILLS THREE. HARTFORD, Conn., September 21.— Three men were killed and four in- jured when a large touring car own- ed by Steve O. Pauline of Bedford, Ohio, struck and carried away fifty feet of railing on the Connecticut boulevard in East Hartford early to- day. A | “Pauline susfained fractures of the arms and legs,